Following repeated Iranian threats to block shipping in the strategic Strait of Hormuz, an international fleet of 35 navy ships are in the Gulf for the world’s largest naval anti-mine exercise. Led by Britain’s Royal Navy, representatives from 41 different navies are spending three weeks practicing the detection and clearance...

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Israeli intelligence sources dismissed today a new sensational account, broadcast by the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC), regarding the fate of an Australian-born Jew who immigrated to Israel and became a Mossad agent, and who was eventually found dead at the age of 34 in a high-security Israeli prison cell on...

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Analysis of Friday and Sunday air strikes on Syria, which were widely attributed to Israel, is converging on the signal of “strategic clarity” sent by whoever ordered the strikes. Foundation for Defense of Democracies research fellow Tony Badran notes that there has been “confusion in some of the media commentary” regarding the...

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U.S. officials have evaluated Hezbollah’s deepening involvement in the Syrian conflict, and find themselves concerned: Hezbollah fighters joined Syrian government forces in the siege of a rebel-held town inside the war-torn country on Monday, local residents said, deepening the Iran-backed group’s involvement in Syria’s civil war and raising alarm among...

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Some foreign policy analysts have, in the past, claimed that when Iranian officials call for the eradication of Israel, they mean that peacefully. This will not...

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The United Arab Emirates on Monday blasted a visit by Iranian officials to contested Gulf islands in the Strait of Hormuz. The Gulf islands – Abu Musa, Greater Tunb and Lesser Tunb – lie along the approach to the Strait of Hormuz. Their status has been disputed since 1971, Iran...

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In recent months Iranian and Hezbollah operatives have been linked to multiple terror plots in Bulgaria. Iranian agents are on trial for another terror plot in Thailand. Nigerian police recently broke up an Iranian terror cell. A recently concluded trial in Cyprus of a confessed Hezbollah member ended with a...

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In January – amid rumors of a thaw in relations between Israel and Turkey, which had been frozen by Ankara three years ago – Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan bitterly denounced what was widely suspected to be an Israeli air strike on missiles in Syria in transit to Hezbollah....

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More details are emerging about an order given to Palestinian terrorist groups by Syria’s Basher al-Assad regime, under which the groups were given permission to conduct “operations” against Israel from within Syria. The Tower exclusively conveyed the news yesterday. The story was subsequently confirmed by Syrian media outlets, which described...

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By striking military targets inside Syria three times since January – twice this past weekend alone – Israel is engaging in what Former Secretary of State John Foster Dulles would have described as a “brinksmanship” strategy. It is not in Israel’s national interest to intervene in the bloody Syrian civil...

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